The Gospels across their earliest witnesses, and the tradition they carried forward
Hover any Greek or Syriac word for phonetic transliteration.
Six manuscript witness columns span the table; their descent flows into the timeline below.
| Greek Papyri | Alexandrian | Western | Latin | Syriac | Byzantine | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Earliest Papyri c. 125–250 CE · Greek TAGNT | Vaticanus c. 325 CE · Greek TAGNT | Bezae c. 400 CE · Greek Latin | Vulgate c. 400 CE · Latin Whitaker | Peshitta c. 400–450 CE · Syriac PayneSmith | Byzantine c. 5th–9th c. · Greek TAGNT | ||||||||||||
ακουσασP102 | Having heard | Ἀκούσας | Having heard | ακουσας | | | audiens | Cum audisset | when he had heard | ܟܕ | Having heard | Ἀκούσας | Having heard | |||||
δὲP102 | now | δὲ | now | δε | | | autem | autem | now | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | now | |||||
ὁP102 | <the> | ὁ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὁ | <the> | |||||
ἸησοῦςP102 | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | — | | | quia | Jesus | Jesus | ܕܝܢ | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | |||||
ὅτιP102 | that | ὅτι | that | οτι | | | iohannes | quod | that | ܝܫܘܥ | that | ὅτι | that | |||||
ἸωάννηςP102 | John | Ἰωάννης | John | ϊωαννης | | | — | Joannes | John | ܕܝܘܚܢܢ | John | Ἰωάννης | John | |||||
παρεδόθηP102 | was delivered up | παρεδόθη | was delivered up | παρεδοθη | | | traditus | traditus esset | had been delivered | ܐܫܬܠܡ | was delivered up | παρεδόθη | was delivered up | |||||
ἀνεχώρησενP102 | He withdrew | ἀνεχώρησεν | He withdrew | ανεχωρησεν | | | secessit | secessit | he withdrew | ܫܢܝ | He withdrew | ἀνεχώρησεν | He withdrew | |||||
εἰςP102 | into | εἰς | into | εις | | | in | in | into | ܠܗ | into | εἰς | into | |||||
τὴνP102 | <the> | τὴν | <the> | την | | | est | — | — | — | — | τὴν | <the> | |||||
Γαλιλαίαν.P102 | Galilee. | Γαλιλαίαν. | Galilee. | γαλιλαιαν | | | galilaeam | Galilæam | Galilee. | ܠܓܠܝܠܐ | Galilee. | Γαλιλαίαν | Galilee. | |||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 4:22 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||